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Meaning of ostensible
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ostensible
adj 1: appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his
apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the
committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the
ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming
honesty" [syn: {apparent(a)}, {ostensible}, {seeming(a)}]
2: represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible
purpose was charity, his real goal popularity" [syn:
{ostensible}, {ostensive}]
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